A few weeks before
Super Tuesday, my friend Howard Phillips asked me
who I thought the Republican Presidential nominee would
be. I predicted John McCain. With the results of Super
Tuesday now history, most political pundits are also
predicting that the
Arizona senator will gain the Republican nomination
for President. And with Mitt Romney
now out of the race, McCain is all but assured the
nomination. One did not need to be a seer to figure
this one out.

For one thing, President George W.
Bush all but destroyed whatever conservative influence
was left in the GOP. Peggy Noonan is right about that.
(See
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,WSJ, January
25, 2008)

Furthermore, the capitulation and
compromise of principle by the Religious Right has also
significantly sealed the death warrant of conservatism
within the GOP. For the sake of not offending George
Bush or losing whatever seat at the table the various
leaders of the
Religious Right felt they had, their spirit of
resistance waned to the point that the very name "Christian
Conservative" has lost all meaning, not to
mention power.

Therefore, how could anyone expect
the vast majority of Republican voters to suddenly
rediscover a huge commitment of conviction to
conservative principles? Add to that question the fact
that there is only one true
conservative/constitutionalist who made it to the
Republican primaries: Congressman
Ron Paul. And virtually the
entire media and political establishment pummeled
Congressman Paul to the point that his limited success
in the race can be categorized as nothing short of
miraculous.

Make no mistake about it: the
Establishment wants one of its own to succeed George
Bush. In order for that to happen, they must manipulate
the primaries to ensure that, no matter who wins in
November, one of their fellow elitists will still wield
power in Washington, D.C. On the Democratic side, both
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fit the bill. And on
the Republican side, John McCain is the
ultimate insider.

A long-standing member of the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), John McCain will
pursue the goals and ambitions of the globalists with a
vengeance. As Pat Buchanan said recently,
"John McCain will make Dick Cheney look like Gandhi."
Buchanan is right on with that prediction.

Despite a liberal, Big Government
track record, many Republican "conservatives" who
have always been critical of John McCain are already
beginning to warm up to him, feeling that his nomination
is inevitable. Include in this list such notables as
Grover Norquist, Tony Perkins, and fellow CFR member
Richard Land.

Then there is Mike Huckabee: the
candidate to whom the evangelical George Bush robots
have gravitated. Huckabee is every bit the Big
Government liberal that is John McCain. In fact,
Huckabee and McCain have developed a very close
friendship, according to numerous sources. Many are
even predicting that Huckabee will be McCain's running
mate, in order to dupe evangelicals into accepting the
McCain candidacy. (I have been saying this myself for
months.) Even Rob Schenck
said this about Huckabee: "After careful and
prayerful consideration, I have concluded that an
evangelical vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John
McCain, and a vote for John McCain will be a disaster
for this country."

But just who is this man, John
McCain?

John McCain's father and
grandfather were both admirals in the U.S. Navy. John
was schooled in one of the most elite boarding schools
in America. He graduated from the Naval Academy where he
ranked
894th out of 899 students.

According to Joel Skousen's
World Affairs Brief, February 1, 2008, "[John
McCain] used nepotism to get ahead: When he was rejected
by the National War College, he used his father's
contacts with the Secretary of the Navy to make them
reconsider." Skousen also notes that "McCain
cheated on his first wife after she had a severe
accident. He then divorced her and married his
multi-millionaire mistress, whose daddy bought McCain a
spot in the Congress."

It has also never been explained
why the son and grandson of Navy admirals would not rise
to the rank of Admiral himself. (He exited the Navy as a
Captain.) Was it his numerous adulterous affairs or his
violent temper? Or both?

John McCain's biographer Robert
Timberg chronicles McCain's numerous sexual affairs with
subordinates both when he was an Executive Officer and
later Squadron Commander. Obviously, such fraternization
is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Skousen and many others have
chronicled McCain's violent temper. Even as a young man,
McCain was "a strikingly violent man." Timberg
quotes McCain describing his propensity for violence,
even as a youngster, saying, "At the smallest
provocation I would go off into a mad frenzy, and then
suddenly crash to the floor unconscious."[In Faith Of My Fathers]

McCain says his vicious temper was
transformed after being held as a Prisoner of War by the
North Vietnamese. There is no doubt that John McCain was
tortured by his Vietnamese captors, but it also seems
clear, by both the written and oral records of many,
that McCain spent the bulk of his captivity
collaborating with his captors.

It is more than interesting that
former POW John McCain would use the power of his senate
seat to stop the investigation and pursuit of American
MIAs in Vietnam. What would possess a former naval
officer to do such a thing? In fact, a group of Vietnam
veterans has uploaded a web page dedicated to exposing
the truth regarding John McCain's record on this matter.
See it at
here.

That John McCain still has a
vicious temper is well known. We can all remember him
singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," to
the tune of the Beach Boys hit song "Barbara Ann."
He also said North Korea should be threatened with
"extinction." He often boasts of America's 100-year
war with Iraq and talks of pursuing enemies
"to the gates of hell." There is no doubt, John
McCain is one mad man.

Furthermore, McCain's position on a
host of issues is extremely problematic for the future
of America. On immigration, John McCain joined with Ted
Kennedy to sponsor an amnesty bill for illegal aliens.
He voted to give social security dollars to illegal
aliens. His
Hispanic Outreach Director, Juan Hernandez, is a
dual American-Mexican citizen widely known for his
"Mexico First" declarations.

He repeatedly voted against the
Bush tax cuts. He co-authored the McCain/Feingold
campaign finance bill that was ruled to be an
unconstitutional infringement of the First Amendment.
Regarding the
Second Amendment, the president of the NRA called
John McCain the "worst 2nd Amendment candidate,"
and Gun Owners of America gives McCain a grade of F-.

John McCain co-sponsored the energy
tax bill (along with his senate buddy Joe Lieberman),
which would dramatically increase the cost of gasoline.
He supports radical global warming legislation. He
joined with Democrats (Gang of 14) to block the attempt
to confirm conservative, strict constructionist judges.
In 2000, he called Christian leaders "agents of
intolerance." He has received the endorsement of the
pro-abortion Republicans for Choice Political Action
Committee. And let's not forget that John McCain was
ringleader of the infamous Keating Five ethical scandal,
which cost taxpayers more than $160 billion.

Consider, too, the top donors to
John McCain's campaign. One will find many of the same
multinational corporations that support Democrats Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton also supporting John McCain.
Include in this list Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Lehman
Brothers, and JP Morgan Chase & Co. (By comparison, the
top contributors to Ron Paul's campaign are [in
order]: 1. Members of the U.S. Army, 2. Members of
the U.S. Navy, 3. Members of the U.S. Air Force.)
(And, in case one is interested, the same big
Arkansas conglomerates that supported Bill Clinton
also support Mike Huckabee.)

Even New York Post D.C.
Bureau Chief
Charles Hurt wrote,"[I]f history is any guide,
the McCain we've seen of late on the campaign trail is
the most conservative McCain we'll ever see."

To vote for John McCain is madness!

Therefore, both social and fiscal
conservatives—along with
evangelical Christians—will have no one from either
the Republican or Democrat parties for whom to vote this
November. What, then, will they do? To vote for the
"lesser of two evils" is no longer a legitimate
option. There is no lesser in a McCain versus Clinton/Obama
race. In fact, Ann Coulter might be right that in such a
race, Hillary is the lesser of two evils.

What, then, are we to do?

First, Ron Paul should abandon his
bid for the Republican nomination and declare himself a
candidate for the Constitution Party nomination. If he
did, he would doubtless receive the nomination and his
campaign would continue to build excitement, donations,
and momentum right up to November. (Ron Paul's
supporters should do everything they can to influence
Dr. Paul to shake off the dust of the GOP and lead his
fellow constitutionalists on a mighty crusade for a
Third Party victory!)

Should Ron Paul decide to remain in
the McCain-led GOP, conservatives and constitutionalists
should rally around the most viable option available to
them. And that option is to support the Constitution
Party nominee, whoever he is. (They will select their
nominee in April in Kansas City, Missouri.) As the
nation's third largest political party, the CP has the
potential to be on all 50 state ballots and it is
absolutely certain that the CP will nominate a
constitutionalist candidate in the similitude of Ron
Paul.

One thing is certain: with John
McCain as the GOP standard-bearer, Christian
conservatives and constitutionalists cannot vote for
either the Republican or Democrat candidate this year.
Staying home and not voting is an admission of defeat
and should be dismissed out-of-hand.

2008 just might be the year to
break the two-party stranglehold on American politics
and vote for an independent conservative
constitutionalist. And the platform and vehicle for this
revolution already exists in the
Constitution Party.

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the
pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Florida. He hosts a
weekly radio show. His
website is
here.